The Team
Kona Development Partners’ principals are well versed in resort and destination real estate development, sales, and marketing. KDP’s members are seasoned professionals that bring strong knowledge and experience within their specific fields of expertise to the company. With proven records of success in destination real estate and resort developments in the Caribbean, Latin America, the South Pacific, and major destinations in the U.S., KDP will be guided throughout the investment period by a specialized team. Past experiences of our principals include residential and resort development, marketing, sales, positioning, and re-positioning of properties for Fortune 500 real estate and hospitality companies.
L.M. Pete Rowland, President/Principal/Manager.
Pete has a vast amount of experience throughout the resort, resort real estate, and destination real estate sector. During his forty-year career of development, management, sales, and marketing; he has created over $1B in resort and resort real estate sales activity. Projects include wholly owned properties and corporate clients such as Holiday Inn, Cendant, NASCAR, Hellman’s, Kahn’s, Block Pharmaceuticals, Jackson-Hewitt, Cape Canaveral Cruise Lines, Riviera Management, Sahara Management, Sol Melia Hotel Group, Ronnie Kovach Outdoor Expeditions, Westin, and Nanuku Auberge Resort Fiji. Pete, having been an innovator in the resort and resort real estate industry through its evolution and guided projects through various economic cycles and trends, is strongly positioned to lead Kona Development Partners and its subsidiaries through the investment period The Kona Estates project.
Andrew Rowland, VP/Principal/Manager.
Andrew has eighteen years of professional experience in the resort marketing, sales, management, and development sectors. Andrew has also consulted on the formation of equity fund partnerships; giving him a keen understanding of both individual investors and the equity fund as a whole. Most recently, Andrew developed and executed marketing programs for the client, Nanuku Auberge Resort Fiji. He specialized in marketing luxury residential-resort properties and estates to investors and affluent clientele by blending traditional and digital-age marketing into one unique program. Andrew will draw on his experience as a past owner/general manager of a full-service hotel property, an investment fund consultant, and a luxury marketing director to execute his duties as a principal of Kona Development Partners and its subsidiaries.
In addition to our leadership detailed above, our Team of highly specialized and uniquely qualified professionals has been assembled and continues to grow as demand on their time increases. Particular attention is given, as the Hawaii Team evolves, to primarily contract Hawaiian born or long time Hawaii residents that are also leading and respected professionals in their specific areas of concentration.
Beverly Hills, CA based Team Concentrations
- Investor Relations – Director, Senior Consultants, & Associates
- Legal Counsel – Securities
- Architect
- Various Marketing Contractors
- Accounting
- IT and Software Providers
Hawaii based Team Concentrations
- Land Planner
- Legal Counsel – Real Estate
- Special Consultant on Land Use, Entitlements, & Water Use
- Community Liaison
- Community and Cultural Advisory Panel
- Cultural Monitor
- Water Systems Engineer
- Water Well Construction
- Civil Engineering
- Geotechnical
- Electrical Engineering
- Infrastructure and Excavation Contractor
- Archeologist
- Environmental Impact Specialist
- Botanical and Biological Specialist
- Surveyor
- Agriculture Consultant